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Understanding the relationship between struggles for housing justice and alternative housing models is riddled with epistemological and methodological challenges. A posteriori definitions of specific housing typologies – for example, "co-operative housing" – fail to account for the often informal and fluid practices that constitute the emergence of housing commoning through collective organizing. This paper offers an empirically grounded theoretical analysis of the development of short-life co-operative housing in London, UK, since the 1970s. Taking a longitudinal view, it explores how performative power surges by squatters and other precariously housed people were sustained by federative organizing and aligned with central and municipal institutional experimentation, giving rise to significant, if precarious, shifts in housing policy and practice. The concept of "precarious institutionalization" names this state of contingency and furthers a political analysis of the maintenance of housing commoning against multiple enclosures, with wider implications for scholarship on contemporary movements for decommodified self-managed housing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

During the 1980s, a conflict over eight occupied houses in the Hafenstraße in Hamburg developed into one of the most contested squatter struggles in West Germany and strongly resonated with squatters abroad. As the conflict escalated, a long-drawn-out discussion unfolded between Hamburg's squatters, authorities, media and inhabitants over who the squatters were and how the city should deal with them. This article sets out to explain why these eight buildings became such a potent symbol for so many different groups. In order to do so, it combines social movement studies methods with folklore studies approaches and analyses the Hafenstraße as a site of legend, as a canvas onto which various actors projected societal hopes, ideals and fears. Central to this analysis are the four main legendary tropes that circulated in the 1980s: the Hafenstraße as a refuge for young dropouts, as a lawless zone, as a haven for terrorists and as indicative of the city's governance crisis. Finally, it asks how such legends informed people's actions and explains the importance of these tropes in the escalation and resolution of the conflict. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article we unpack the infrastructural imaginary of urban residents in a neighbourhood in the northern periphery of Accra in Ghana, focussing on drainage. Based on interviews and observations, we describe how residents characterise their neighbourhood's development as a linear progression in stages, each marked by the completion of different infrastructures. Our analysis brings out the visceral and affective underpinnings of infrastructure imaginaries, showing how residents sense their environment and attempt to change it. On the one hand, the aspiration towards linear neighbourhood development results in the stigmatisation of residents – referred to as 'squatters' even if they rent – some of whose practices are deemed unhygienic and who are therefore considered out of place. On the other hand, everyday interactions and mutual interdependence provide the foundation for collaboration and compromises across social divides. Studying how aspirations translate into neighbourhood development, we argue, requires that we engage with infrastructure as both political and pragmatic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article, titled "Hand," is a poem written by Reed Richards and published in the summer 2024 issue of Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought. The poem explores the symbolism and significance of the human hand, describing it as a vessel for communication, trust, and understanding. The author reflects on the intricate nature of the hand and its ability to convey both kindness and pain. The poem concludes with a contemplation on mortality and the potential for transcendence through the hands. The author, Reed Richards, is a poet and fiction writer who has previously published in Dialogue and resides in Murray, Utah. [Extracted from the article]

In this article I question notions of urban liminality by foregrounding the temporal, spatial and experiential dimensions underpinning their formations. I focus on liminal practices of inhabitation in the context of a housing squat in Rome, Italy, by investigating how a permanent housing deprivation condition, once politically organized in a squatted building, can anchor processes of empowerment and political mobilization. To do so, I put forward a rereading of liminality, not necessarily as a temporary state but rather as a more comprehensive spatial–temporal assemblage, by offering a tripartite reading of liminal conditions in their spatial, temporal and experiential dimensions. My goal is to offer an analysis of urban and housing liminality that transcends totalizing narratives of exceptionality, temporariness or straightforward annihilation, advancing instead a more nuanced reading—where liminality can be seen either as a vehicle for social depotentiation or as the grounds for collective forms of emancipatory practices. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

While there is a considerable body of literature on symbolic boundaries that engages with long-established/newcomer configurations, work on conviviality has only rarely taken this angle, despite its general focus on contexts of immigration-related diversity. This article connects these works of literature by examining insider-outsider configurations between long-established residents and newcomers in two very different contexts of rapid demographic change, where the established population is already marginalized and feels further threatened by newcomers. Drawing on ethnographic research in Newham, UK, and Mshongo, South Africa, we advance debates on conviviality by revealing how perceptions of inequality, lack of civility, and lack of reciprocity shape symbolic boundaries against newcomers, which may, in turn, be softened by convivial practices. We also consider what the differences between the sites might reveal about the enabling conditions for conviviality in such neighbourhoods.

While there is a considerable body of literature on symbolic boundaries that engages with long-established/newcomer configurations, work on conviviality has only rarely taken this angle, despite its general focus on contexts of immigrationrelated diversity. This article connects these works of literature by examining insider-outsider configurations between long-established residents and newcomers in two very different contexts of rapid demographic change, where the established population is already marginalized and feels further threatened by newcomers. Drawing on ethnographic research in Newham, UK, and Mshongo, South Africa, we advance debates on conviviality by revealing how perceptions of inequality, lack of civility, and lack of reciprocity shape symbolic boundaries against newcomers, which may, in turn, be softened by convivial practices. We also consider what the differences between the sites might reveal about the enabling conditions for conviviality in such neighbourhoods. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The given text discusses the environmental concerns and power dynamics portrayed in María Amparo Ruiz de Burton's novel, "The Squatter and the Don." It explores the impact of resource control on the Mexican population in California after the US-Mexican War, particularly in relation to water, food, and energy resources. The article highlights the interconnectedness of these resources and the need for Mexican Americans to resist environmental degradation by seeking control over energy systems and infrastructure. However, it also acknowledges the novel's shortcomings in its portrayal of Indigenous populations and its adoption of problematic racial stratification. The text concludes by emphasizing the significance of energy as a resource and its influence on human life and the environment. [Extracted from the article]

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In the article "Squatting and the State: Resilient Property in an Age of Crisis," Lorna Fox O'Mahony and Marc L. Roark propose a new theory called Resilient Property to analyze how states address the issue of homeless people squatting on land. The authors argue that squatting is a complex problem that challenges the concept of private property and raises questions about the functioning of global society under capitalism. The book includes case studies of five jurisdictions, but the focus is primarily on England and Wales and the USA, with limited coverage of Spain. The authors discuss the importance of framing issues and highlight the vulnerability of states, although this may discount the suffering of those evicted by state action. The book also mentions the criminalization of squatting in the Netherlands but fails to address the broader context of the Dutch squatter movement. Overall, the authors attempt to synthesize concepts from various disciplines but could benefit from further research on squatting in the Global South. [Extracted from the article]

Young men of empire seeking their fortune in Australia incorporated violence against Indigenous people into their lives as part of leisure. This derived from the persona created by romanticism. Squatters created an emotional community that valued capital at the expense of family and emphasised uniformity, they were a transitory people travelling to England and Europe. They held a specific relationship to the Aboriginal polity in which they lived and a loose and imaginative relationship to government. This paper explores squatter space as they saw it. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The phenomenon of squatting, which plays an important role in the life of the city in the “era of permanent crisis”, is a kind of response to the crisis and/or an attempt to implement utopia, introduction of a special community model or reflection of the ideas of living ideals, as well as a form and method of creative self-expression and self-organization. It is a dual phenomenon, which is also a space of danger, risk and opportunities for self-development / self-realization.

The current paper aims the action of the governor Mauro Borges Teixeira (1961-1964) in the squatter decommissoning movement, in the begginning of 1960's, when the staged a single-minded resistance against the land expropriation by land grabbers, farmers na profitters, that aspired to soak up the land market emmerd by the construction of Brasilia. In order couted whith a support program created by the USA after the Second World War, aimed to prevent spreading communist over Latin America, The Point Four Program. The punishmen to the land grabbers took place in the moment that came up the first reports of a help and agreement between the Governor of Goiás and USA Goverment through that program. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

First Nations perspectives on the Frontier Wars are gaining increasing interest in historical, academic, political and social spheres. The arrival of squatters and miners brought momentous change to Ewamian people in Queensland's Gulf savannah. Aboriginal resistance was followed by European reprisals, a pattern seen across Australia. A key aim of our paper is to address the dominant view of how Ewamian contact history is presented -- Ewamian people did not passively accept the arrival of Europeans; the historic sources describe a resistance that continued over 35 years in three distinct phases. This paper has two aims. First, we challenge the colonial narrative that describes Ewamian as passive respondents to European colonialism. Second, we reinterpret the colonial narratives to identify three phases of resistance in the Ewamian estate in response to the changing nature of the colonial frontier in Queensland's Gulf savannah. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Prior to the passage in 1862 of the Homestead Act, much of the West was settled by squatters—settlers with no legal claim to the land they lived and worked on but who claimed it as their own. They often used democratically elected claims associations to facilitate their expansion into the West, and while they were not directly connected to the U.S. state, also cannot be thought of as completely separate from it. Like filibusters and conspirators, they sought to advance what they perceived as American interests, although they were not officially sanctioned to do so by the federal government. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article offers information on the eviction process of squatters who have possession of the home while they refuses to pay rent. Topics include examines the squatters even gain the right to continued possession of the land that was not theirs using a doctrine called adverse possession and considered the serial squatters seem to bounce from one place to the next, hoping to never get caught.

The destructions caused by the military campaigns of the Neo-Assyrian empire in the southern Levant during the Iron Age IIB and IIC (8th–7th centuries b.c.e.) led to mass deportations of local populations and a forced displacement of refugees. Although several studies in recent years have focused their attention on displacement and refugees in the ancient Near East during the period in question, they often deal with large scale processes, while generally neglecting more localized phenomena. Such phenomena include, among others, post-destruction squatter phases. These frequently overlooked strata reflect the resettlement of a site following its destruction by local individuals who were forced, to some degree, to leave their homes for an unknown period. This paper attempts to define some of these post-destruction squatter phases in the archaeological record during the Iron IIB–C through the analysis of nine case studies, and to examine this phenomenon from a refugee standpoint. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Beginning in the second half of the 1960s, the development model that Brazilian governments envisioned for the Amazon was based on large landholdings and the massive transfer of public resources to numerous large rural landowners and private national and foreign companies based in the south-central regions of Brazil. Large tracts of land were destined for the exploitation of natural resources (wood, minerals, etc.) but above all for cattle raising. However, workers' struggle for land, with the occupation of unproductive properties and conflict but also solidarity, collective work, and mutual exchanges, produced initiatives that made possible another form of land tenure and use in the region, one that was diversified and more sustainable. A partir da segunda metade da década de 1960, o modelo de desenvolvimento, concebido pelos governos do Brasil para a Amazônia, foi pautado na grande propriedade da terra e na transferência massiva de recursos públicos a inúmeros grandes proprietários rurais e empresas privadas nacionais e estrangeiras sediadas no Centro-Sul do Brasil. Grandes extensões de terra foram destinadas não só à exploração dos recursos naturais (madeiras, minérios etc.), mas sobretudo à criação de gado bovino. Mas a luta dos trabalhadores pela terra por meio de suas experiências localizadas de ocupações de imóveis improdutivos, contestação e embates, mas também de solidariedade entre si, de trabalhos coletivos e trocas mútuas, puderam experimentar iniciativas que possibilitaram uma outra forma de posse e de uso da terra na região: diversificada e mais sustentável. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The squatting movement is a social movement that seeks to use unoccupied land or temporarily or permanently abandoned buildings as farmland, housing, meeting places, or centers for social and cultural purposes. Its main motivation is to denounce and at the same time respond to the economic difficulties that activists believe exist to realize the right to housing. Much of what we know about this movement comes from the informational and journalistic literature generated by actors that are close or even belong to the movement. However, there is also a significant diversity of knowledge and scientific evidence on the squatters’ movement that is being produced by academia and that is worth knowing and grouping together. With the aim of defining and understanding how the squatters’ movement is constituted and organized, and how it acts, this research analyzes what the scientific literature affirms about it. Through qualitative research based on the systematic literature review (SLR) method, information was sought in the Web of Science (WOS) and Scopus databases. The initial universe of 262 articles was finally reduced to a sample of 32 articles. These have been analyzed by means of a categorized classification content analysis. The results obtained allow us to establish the state of the art on the squatting movement, placing special emphasis on its dynamics of resistance, its process of political subjectivation and its mechanisms of action and self-management. The study suggests that the movement is understood based on collective actions with a political role of resistance to neoliberalism and the inequalities it generates, and of response to the basic and social needs of the communities through self-management.Systematic review registration[doi: 10.5281/zenodo.7179670], identifier [7179670].

The scholarly discourse on migrants and land access in peri-urban spaces is advancing theoretically and empirically. This paper contributes to this important discourse by examining the structures and networks used by migrants of international descent in accessing and securing the much coveted land in peri-urban spaces of destination countries. The study is qualitative, based on an ethnographic inquiry among Malawian migrants in Lydiate, an informal peri-urban squatter settlement in Zimbabwe's Norton town. The finding of the paper is that migrants resort to alternative institutions including kinship, political networks and investors in accessing and securing land in peri-urban spaces. Migrants also establish themselves through the occult, a religious and ritual-based form of authority that is associated with deathly symbols. Because it is feared by adherence and indigenes alike, the occult is able to yield and guarantee land to migrants seeking it in its name. Migrant squatter settlements, therefore, emerge as dynamic spaces with novel forms of authority that regulate access to resources. Beneath the semblance of chaos that characterizes squatter settlements, there is another different 'world'; ordered and shared by those who constitute it. The paper further argues that, the reason why migrants turn to alternative forms of authority in accessing and securing land is not because they prefer it; very often, there are no formal institutions that they can turn to. What this means for academia and policy makers is that, there is a broad scope of players that need to be engaged in the planning and governance of peri-urban spaces in the age of transnational mobility. These players include political patrons, investors, and other primordial forms of authority which include kinship and the feared occult. These players not only need to be understood but also require to be engaged in the ongoing construction and governance of peri-urban spaces. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Scholarly analyses often interpret the urban struggles of both marginalised citizens and marginalised migrants through the single frame of urban citizenship. Urban citizenship, in this literature, is generally understood as an agenda that seeks to achieve the full political belonging of all those who inhabit the city. This article questions two assumptions running through much of this scholarship. The first is the assumption that struggles for urban citizenship necessarily promote the full belonging of all city dwellers. I argue that this understanding does not adequately take into account the social hierarchies existing within citizenship. The second is the assumption that all marginalised city dwellers (including migrants) will claim for their political belonging to the city. These limitations in the urban citizenship agenda are explored in the divergent aspirations and claims-making of both Brazilians and international migrants living together in squats in central São Paulo, Brazil. I show how militant Brazilian squatters pursuing their full urban citizenship bring about progressive change while also unintentionally reinscribing social hierarchies within citizenship. I also show how migrant squatters are not clearly compelled by the prospect of full belonging in São Paulo, but instead often aspire to better futures elsewhere. In sum, I argue that analyses of urban struggles located at the intersection of migration and residential segregation should not assume that the urban citizenship agenda will be either universally inclusive or universally desirable in a given city. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This essay considers how California novelists have depicted the state as a locale of defeat – where, if you are on the wrong side of history, the land can be stolen out from under you. The first part of this article considers several early novels that address the 19th-Century power struggles of the state: The Life and Adventures of Joaquin Murieta,, Ramona, The Squatter and the Don, and The Octopus. These novels reveal that the state was shaped by white supremacy, monopolies, suspect legislation, and discriminatory federal policies. The second part of the essay illuminates more recent narratives of dispossession in California, including If He Hollers Let Him Go, American Son, Under the Feet of Jesus, When the Emperor Was Divine, and There There. This study also incorporates theories of cultural geography, drawing from the writings of Alex Hunt and Hsuan L. Hsu, who make connections between space and power, and examine the processes and significance of regional transformation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The effect of this "colonial cringe" is an enduring and debilitating performance anxiety on a global stage. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes a housing project in Santiago, Chile that now lies in ruins and has become a contested memory site. The project was once an ambitious, modernist project that housed former squatters during Salvador Allende's socialist presidency (1970–1973) and its demise has subsequently become emblematic of the violent processes of neoliberal urban restructuring that marked the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet (1973–1990). Yet efforts to memorialize the site also contain within them certain silences and elisions, gaps which can help to reveal the complex, embedded nature of liberal property relations in Chile. These relations underscore certain dynamics through which squatters have historically been able to gain housing rights and a foothold in the city. They also provide a key location through which to better understand the specific contours of neoliberalism's trajectory, including its haunted forms of ruination, its points of tension, its limits, and the making of its counterpublics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study investigated the attitudes of the permanent residents and the squattersettlements regarding the existence of crime, and the socio-environmental problems experienced by the permanent residents of Greater Breyten Urban Community due to the existence of the squatters in their areas. This growth of squatter settlements, informal settlements, slums along the formal settlement and or urban areas is a global phenomenon. The research design in this study involved a descriptive design which reveals potential relationships between variables. According to the study, the researcher was describing the attitude and impact of quarters on the social environment of the Greater Breyten area. Data was also analyzed using frequencies and percentages. The findings revealed that there are no significant differences between the attitudes of the permanent residents and those of the squatter-settlements regarding the existence of crime. Besides, the socio-environmental problems, the results indicated that the conditions of squatters are poor and unhealthy for human habitation. Considering the findings of the study, the researcher proposed that there be a multi-disciplinary approach to present and provide resources to address the problem of squatter-settlement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]